Brewster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
October 1999
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Doyle v. Ohio · Federal Election Commission v. Machinists Non-Partisan Political League · Parkhurst v. State · Westmark v. State · Dryden v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a long line of cases culminating in Westmark v. State, supra, this court has held that prosecutorial comments at trial concerning the accused's silence following arrest violate rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Art. 1, § 11 of the Wyoming Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tortolito v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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